Page Layout Book
aims
-balanced equal layout
-all pages equally attention grabbing
-busy pages balanced
-text on all spreads
-range of text/texture thought the book, spread around
The page layout of the book is consist of scanned in imager, photos, text pieces and otehr item found at the festival that have been edited to overlap or have been overlapped via the scanning, this collage style is the layout design of the pages in the publication as the collage make up the copy and the imagery. These page are very busy/design heavy page design that will be displaied as one per page full bleed at the correct photo size 6x4 wit 2.5cm for the margin which is taken up for the binding. The images/edits will be full bleed as this will allow the book to seem less formal fitting with the tone of voice of the book as well as reflecting a more like a collage book style design, it busy to rfelct the busness of the atmopshere of the fstival tehrefore the page layout and design shoudl also reflect/highlight this. The book itsself has been created to be expressive but also imgersive for the auidence, it need to grab attention via the page spreads and allow the imags to take over the whole pages will enage with the target audiecen. Also having white space around the images or having the pages layout/designed in a minimal or moderist style would contrast with the messy unorgainsed nature of the concept (as well as not work for the content). The pages need to be fully bleed to show the messy, full-on nature of the festival, at a festival many different things and experiecnes happen at once and the busy style of design selected has been used for this reason. The book aims to allow the auidence to relive or exicte them for the experience therefore the more accurately it can relate this is more suitble for the book. It need to completely express the festival vibe via the designa dn the collage style layout seem the most suitble there appling any grid or exttra modernist feature will distractor work againt this theory/concept.
The next step in the book design is to create the order for the pages, the selected pages need to be placed in order that allowed them to work with each other, contrast but still compliment. As this book is very visually heavy/busy, the page design needs to equal this out, pages with heavy design/decoration need to be placed against more simpler pages to as too not over power selected spreads but to make the whole book equally attention grabbing. Also as now all the images involve text to spread the text out, each spread will have one text sample then on contrasting page, text heavy pages will be balanced out with the purely imagery pages. Many of the images take the same style, sunny day style images of the shop with heavy percentage of the pages being sunny sky, these will not be placed together but with different imagery, this is to make sure the page spreads are all different but also so that facing pages aren't to similar so they seem more like individual page. Also many of the different page use similar collage elements for example button, map pages, ect this will be done so that these elements need to be spread out over the book, for example so that pages with maps elements aren't close together, to make this element run thought the book.
The feature page eg the dedication, the acknowledgements, and the content will be place in the correct places, this is sot break up the imagery and to give the book an official book structure, this will stop the book looking too much like a scrap book style imagery. It give the book a more formal design layout in selected areas, these pages are formally designed to keep the publcation from being overly handcrafted. The pages will reinforce the book as a functional publication whilst adding to the humorous aspect, this give it more solid form to the book whilst represents a doucemntation book design more.
BALANCED OUT PAGE SPREADS
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